TWO HEADED BABY has second head AMPUTATED and lives – astonishing pics

A BABY born with two heads is lucky to be alive after a successful operation to amputate the second head. Sana Hilel, from Aleppo, Syria, had her seventh child, Abdullatif Shekrak, by caesarean section after cranium bifidum was detected in the womb.

PUBLISHED: 14:58, Wed, Aug 1, 2018
| UPDATED: 18:19, Wed, Aug 1, 2018

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Baby Abdullatif Shekrak was born with two heads (Image: Pen News/Mehmet Koparan)

It’s a rare condition that arises when a baby’s skull doesn’t close properly during pregnancy, and parts of the brain – or the membrane that covers it – form outside the skull in a 'second head'.

Realising it was a risky birth, the 37-year-old decided to have her baby across the Turkish border in Hatay Province, at Mustafa Kemal University Hospital.

Facing death, the baby was then quickly transferred to Iskenderun Developmental Hospital where a brain, nerve and spinal surgery specialist removed the second head.

Dr Mehmet Koparan, who performed the surgery, said a case this severe would often have been fatal.